Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . eas of loess within the drainagebasin of the Yangho, there are numerous deep narrowravines, with branching tributaries, cut to a depth ofone hundred feet or more by retrograding erosion, theloess standing in perpendicular faces on either describes one of these chasms as more thanseventy-five feet deep, with a width of only four feetbetween vertical walls of loam, and winding in aa crooked course for more than a mile. In manyplaces, especially near the bordering ledges of rock andnear the center of the larger valleys occupied by
Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . eas of loess within the drainagebasin of the Yangho, there are numerous deep narrowravines, with branching tributaries, cut to a depth ofone hundred feet or more by retrograding erosion, theloess standing in perpendicular faces on either describes one of these chasms as more thanseventy-five feet deep, with a width of only four feetbetween vertical walls of loam, and winding in aa crooked course for more than a mile. In manyplaces, especially near the bordering ledges of rock andnear the center of the larger valleys occupied by themain stream, there are distinct lines of coarse graveland rocky fragments interstratified with the loess. Thisoftentimes continues for a long distance over a com-paratively level area, where it would seem impossiblefor superficial currents from local cloudbursts to haveproduced the results. On the other hand, it was noticed that in the nar-rower valleys, running east from Kalgan to Shiwantse,between the lofty border of the Mongolian plateau and. Evidence of a Deluge in Asia. 295 the nearest border range, there were numerous and ex-tensive deposits of loess that had been very clearlydrifted in by the wind. The resemblance of these de-posits to immense snowdrifts accumulating on the leeside of the mountains was very striking. This wasespecially the case at Shiwantse, where the entire villageof 1,500 or 2,000 inhabitants finds shelter in commo-dious and comfortable houses dug into the hillside ofloess which flanks the eastern face of the mountainrange. These houses are excavated in successive reced-ing stories one above the other, the natural roof of onehouse serving as the front yard of the house above dwellings extend for three hundred feet or moreup the slope of the loess, which continues upward for aconsiderably greater distance. In this valley we sawmany such villages, and in crossing the mountain fromwest to east found extensive drifts of the loess up to aheight
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